Chemical Warfare

  • 600 BC - Assyrians
    100

    600 BC - Assyrians

    The Assyrians contaminated their enemies' water supply with a poison called Rye Ergot. The poison came from "skunk cabbage", which is a poisonous plant that grows near water.
  • Tartars
    Jan 1, 1346

    Tartars

    The Tartars hurled the corpses of people who died of a plague over the Kaffan walls. Historians say that this started the Black Death, or Bubonic Plague.
  • World War I

    World War I

    The Germans started using Chlorine Gas and Mustard Gas.